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I am beginning to move into the inside of my tiny house, to insulate and to put up the pine paneling. A little bit ago I put up some of the pine paneling on the interior wall for what will become the back of the closet. I had wanted to get back to the tiny house to keep putting up the walls, but some work pulled me away and then it rained, a lot.
The result was the wood paneling swelled up as it absorbed the moisture in the air. Before anyone ask, yes I did have the wood sitting out in the space to normalize, but with so much rain and the house not being climate controlled yet, the moisture did its damage. This also happened before I could seal the panels, so that didn't help either.
You can see the wood had swelled so much that it tore itself free from the nails and bowed out majorly.
I guess the value of my mistake is to prevent this from happening to others. I just did a little wall when this happened. Imagine if this were to happen when someone just finished the entire inside! So how do I plan to prevent this from happening again?
- I'm going to make a concerted effort once I start to not stop until I'm mostly done with the main wall panelings.
- I'm going to choose a week where the weather should have a pretty even moisture level in the air
- As soon as I get the wall paneling up, I'm going to start sealing it right away. I'll be trying Tung Oil
- I built a insulated temporary door which has weather stripping on it
The temporary door I built is pretty overbuilt honestly, but I figured if I was going to have a temporary door, I might as well do it right and honestly it only took me an hour. Now if I was building a tiny house inside or if the weather where I lived was even keeled, then this wouldn't be an issue. In the past week here in Charlotte it has been dry-ish and 73 degrees and then three days later we had snow where it was 20 degrees. Its a nightmare for this type of stuff.
For the door I made a frame that fit inside my door frame and then attached a cheap piece of OSB board. The 2×4's were $2.30 each (3) the OSB was $7 (1) Insulation was about $7 worth from a larger pack I'll be using for the walls. So $20.90 for the door total.
Now many of you might be asking why I don't just put on my regular door right now. The reason for this temporary door is that I decided to put the floor in near the very end of the build so I don't scratch it. Since I decided that, I'm still feeling out what the actual final height of floor will be, I don't know exactly know how low the door must hang. The door is made, but I want to put the floor in, add the threshold, then adjust the door height and hang it.
Here is the temporary door I made:
In the above photo you'll notice that the OSB actually extends beyond the frame, this was intentional. I push this into the door frame and the extra OSB gives me a lip and something to mount the weather stripping to.
On the bottom of the temporary door I had the OSB go flush so that when I move it around the brunt of the force is on the 2×4's and not on the OSB. This is because OSB is pretty fragile and it can break down.


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Good kick and impact
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Plenty of detail on offer in an unforced way
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High treble not always as open as some
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In so many respects the P7 turntable is a classic Rega, but it actually shares very few components with the famous old Planar models.
It has an AC motor mounted directly behind the bearing, but it's a low-voltage motor powered from an external generator, which also allows electronic speed switching. It has a short belt drive to the sub-platter, but there is actually a pair of round-section belts and the sub-platter is metal.
There's a hard, rigid platter with a felt mat, but instead of the original glass this one is made of ceramic, complete with Michell-style underslung weights around the periphery.
We have mixed feelings about this platter recipe: sure, it's dimensionally stable second to none, but the hardness is not relevant when there's a felt mat in the way.
The chassis is still particle board, with a metal trim, which serves both visual and functional purposes, helping to damp and disperse resonances in the chassis.
The arm on the P7 is the RB700. Here the inheritance from the classic RB300 is even clearer and many of the parts are identical or, at least, identical in measurements. There are various changes, though perhaps most significantly in the method of mounting: this arm mounts via three screws through holes in the stainless steel base plate, rather than the single large-diameter nut of the older models.
The arm tube is given a special coating. There's a third hole in the headshell for cartridges that take a third bolt (including Rega's, of course). In common with the RB300, the counterweight is made of tungsten and is intended to be adjusted for perfect balance, downforce then being applied by a calibrated spring.
Most arms rely on moving the counterweight to set downforce, but a spring has the advantage of slightly increasing downforce as the arm rides up over a warp, making for more secure tracking of warped discs.
Sound quality
One of the occasionally amusing results of blind listening is that products, apparently from diametrically opposed schools of thought, emerge as sounding quite similar and few would have expected a Rega to receive many similar comments to the Pro-Ject Xperience.
That's what happened, though, with one listener even pointing out the similarity directly. It was felt in general that the P7 had the edge in control and resolution and also integrated the bass better with the mid and treble, but its imaging and general presentation were thought quite a lot like those of the Pro-Ject.
In keeping with the traditions of the brand, a good rocking performance is invariably on offer with any disc of decent merit. In fact it's interesting how Rega has managed to keep that aspect intact from its earliest models, perhaps very slightly lessening the raw impact and at the same time adding more insight and better tonal balance.
Effectively, if you always enjoyed the Rega sound, this could be just the deck for you!
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As we push through the garden gate of the old homestead, we are surprised at how much smaller things are than we remembered them, and how much work needs to be done. -The Hummer-
Sunday, June 21, 2009
A Season for Everything, Everything in it's Season
Mom is in San Antonio visiting my brother and his wife this weekend. I promised to keep the blog up for her, but yesterday I got so busy with my sweet monkeys (pictured above) that I flat forgot. My apologies. She'll be back late tonight.
I used to be like Mom when my girls were tiny. We'd pack a lunch, kiss our husbands good-bye, and spend over 9-12 hours at the Clayton Library in Houston on a Saturday in front of the microfilm readers or our noses in books researching. Not every Sat., but now and then. Those were exciting days for me. Mysteries discovered, mysteries solved, branches of the family tree reconnected. I even recovered for my husband's family a family bible and critical bible pages dating back to the Civil War. Woo-hoo!
But then I had a rash of babies, a total surprise to us. A nice surprise, but it changed things. (Multiples are a whole other animal!) When the twins were born, I found myself stressed out because I felt like I should still be spending Saturdays blurring my eyes with hard to read handwriting.
That's when someone said to me, "Remember, a season for everything, and everything in it's season." I realized that I had a new task for the next couple of years. Instead of doing research, I started collecting family stories. I collected photographs and labeled them. I started writing memories down and things I had learned. I made an effort to create moments that would become pleasant memories for my children, and myself. And I've taught my girls who are older now how to fill out their pedigree charts, and shared some things about those ancestors on them. I became a recorder of not just the past, but the present.
The libraries and I will become reacquainted soon. In the meantime, I have done a lot of work for the now, so that my generation doesn't become one of those that needs to be researched at a later date. There will be ample information for future generations to enjoy. :)
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I'd like to sort a file based on the results of a regex expression. For example, if I have the following property declarations in Obj-C
@property (nonatomic, strong) id <AlbumArtDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate> *albumArtView; // 1
@property (nonatomic, strong, readonly) UIImageView *profileView; // 2
@property (nonatomic, strong, readwrite) UIButton *postFB; // 3
@property (nonatomic, assign) UIButton *saveButton; // 4
By default they will sort in order [4, 1, 2, 3], but I would like to sort them in order of the actual property names, [1, 3, 2, 4]. I can write a regular expression to tease out just the property name, is it possible for me to sort by the results of that expression?
Is there any built-in Unix tool that will do this for me? I'm working in Xcode, so VIM/emacs solutions won't help.
Also, the reason I'd like to do this using a regex is so that I can expand my sorting algorithm to work in other situations. Use it to sort method declarations, import statements, etc.


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The Mataura.
I realised during my recent 10 day fishing stint that there are 2 distinctly different types of angling which I indulge in here in NZ. One is fishing for fish; the pursuit of incredible looking, usually large, rare specimens. The challenge is in the hunt and the first cast, possibly the only cast of the day. Or it's in slinging an 8wt di7 from morning till night over a drop-off at a west coast river mouth. The other is fishing for fishing; the pursuit of any feeding fish of almost any size, usually in medium to large numbers. The challenge is in having your fundamentals absolutely right and adapting to keep them right without wasting any time. It's easy to get lost in one and forget about the other. I did last season, I got lost in big fish hunting, but if you look at the archives from last March It's easy see why. I did this season too, but not as much. Probably because there were fewer big fish about. Before my break I realised I was craving some fishing, not hunting, so my 6 days on the Mataura were exactly what I needed… after a quick big fish fix!
The Mataura.
After catching a few fish in a riffle I was happy to stand in the river, watch and wait. 12 noon. An odd fish is moving but I'm not bothering with them. I expect the fish to move properly at about 2. I wait. I stand up on a log to allow my feet to warm up. Waders are essential here, once I walk a few paces from this log there is no place to stand out of the cold river. 1pm. Nothing moving. I'm not moving far, a few paces then back to the relative warmth standing out of the river onto a wobbly log can give. Watching, waiting. Some fish are trying to move but it stops again. 2pm. Nothing moving.. I'm too far from the comfort log now to go back. 2.15pm, a few fish move… lots of fish move. It's on. Now every cast is to at least one rising fish. I'm casting almost constantly. I resist the urge to walk up passed rising fish to get to more rising fish. I'll move very slowly and try to have a decent attempt at as many as I possibly can. I'm catching fish. My emerger (or whatever it is) is working well. As many fish as there are moving, each cast needs to be placed in front of a feeding fish. A few inches left or right and my fly will not be seen. I keep casting, keep fishing, keep catching, stay focused… I stop and take a deep breath, a quick glance around, a smirk and back to it. Loving it, utterly engrossed, there is nothing else. This is as good as it gets..
I've fished the Mataura from the source almost to the sea. It's a fabulous river which offers virtually every facet of NZ river fishing. My favourite one of these facets is "the mad Mataura rise". I'm not the only one!
It was great 10 days off. I fished with 2 great friends, Robbie Mcphee and Mark Adamson. I made a few new friends too at the holiday park in Gore. Russell and John, Great to meet and have the craic with you two. And great to meet and briefly fish with Pat Kennedy on the river. We have some mutual friends. Sometimes the fly fishing world is a small one! Hopefully we'll cross paths again.
The season is not over yet!


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I have a set of line features inside a particular polygonal boundary. For each line, I'd like to generate a polygon inside which every possible point is closer to the given line than to any other line in the layer. I've done this in the past for point input features using Delaunay triangulation, but if there's a similar process for doing it with line features I haven't been able to find it.
ETA: Geogeek's solution had occurred to me, but in straighter sections where the input lines have fewer vertices, the resulting polygons get way too close (even overlapping) a line that they shouldn't. Here, the red lines are my inputs, you can see the vertices and the Thiessen polygons generated from them.
Perhaps a quick and (very) dirty solution might be to convert each line to a plentiful set of evenly-spaced points (rather than the line's vertices only), generate Thiessen polygons from those, then dissolve them based on the originating line ID.


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Federal GHG cap-and-trade regulation is on the horizon
Even if you don't believe global warming is "real" or support U.S. efforts to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs), the cold hard fact is, this country is headed for GHG regulation … and fast. You should expect some form of GHG regulation to be effective by 2012 -- a blink of an eye from a corporate planning perspective.
Here are the recent events, or dots. Connecting them will show the inevitability of federal GHG regulation:
FACT: Released on Feb. 25, President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget says, "The Administration will work expeditiously …to develop an economy-wide emissions reduction program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions approximately 14 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and approximately 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. This program will be implemented through a cap-and-trade system … starting in FY 2012..."
FACT: On March 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule in response to the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which requires mandatory reporting of GHG emissions from large sources. In general, EPA proposes that suppliers of fossil fuels or industrial greenhouse gases, manufacturers of vehicles and engines, and facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more per year of GHG emissions submit annual reports. The gases covered by the proposed rule are the six listed under the Kyoto Protocol and other fluorinated gases, including nitrogen trifluoride and hydrofluorinated ethers.
FACT: On March 23, major news sources started reporting that EPA would soon propose a finding that GHGs pose a danger to human health and welfare. The proposed finding is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on April 30. There is likely to be substantial public comment on the proposed finding, but none that will prevent the endangerment finding from being finalized.
Is EPA indicating, through its proposed endangerment finding, that it might regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act (CAA)? From what we have seen so far, you bet. The proposed endangerment finding proposes to address all six Kyoto Protocol GHGs as a group (rather than individually) and not just the four gases related to transportation.
Furthermore, the proposed scope of the endangerment finding is that GHGs pose a threat both to public health and welfare. This enables EPA to institute primary and secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for GHGs and to fully and stringently regulate GHGs under the CAA.
How would GHGs be regulated under the CAA? One likely scenario is that EPA would treat GHGs as other pollutants that have interstate transport issues. The agency could regulate such interstate transport of GHG emissions as a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP), with EPA learning from its mistakes under the Clean Air Interstate Rule. The FIP could then set forth a national plan for GHGs that included cap and trade, which would accomplish the administration's budgetary goal of a cap-and-trade plan without the approval of Congress.
With all signs pointing to action on federal GHG regulation this year, with new rules taking effect by 2012, at least some aspect of that regulation will involve a federal cap-and-trade program. When it comes to regulation of climate change, the business community overwhelmingly favors a cap-and-trade system over other alternatives, such as a carbon tax.
Do not expect this federal regulation to be delayed due to the economic crisis. In fact, there are those in Washington who see climate change regulation as the "trifecta" of saving the environment, rebuilding the economy, and eliminating the political Achilles' heel of the Middle East.
What is uncertain at this point is whether the cap-and-trade program will come from Congress or from EPA. Should you care? Absolutely.
Industry leaders with a strong lobby likely will prefer federal cap-and-trade legislation in hopes of having the most influence on the outcome of the new rules. For others, it may be more beneficial to wait for an EPA generated cap-and-trade system. EPA is likely to dictate, with fairness, what is best for both the environment and economy, and not whose lobby spoke the loudest.
On the one hand, if your facility prefers a short time-frame for GHG regulation -- for example, an industry with large capital expenditures in the near future that are cost-dependent on GHG regulation -- you may want to prod your congressional representative because -- although action from either arena is likely to be complex and controversial, and fraught with litigation -- it is more likely that EPA's regulatory route will take longer. And for that reason, industries that would benefit from the regulation being finalized slowly should focus on EPA.
There are certainly several other issues beyond the scope of this article, including: what sectors would be covered under cap and trade in either system, how allowances would be distributed, availability of offsets, the effect of cap and trade on bridge fuels like natural gas, etc.
The bottom line is: make no mistake, a federal cap-and-trade program is coming.
There are pros and cons as to whether EPA or Congress designs the new cap-and-trade system. Each GHG emitter should analyze the situation with its legal counsel to determine where its interests are best served. However, if such analysis indicates that congressional action is in your favor, you had better act fast. EPA isn't bluffing and is sure to move forward on its own in the face of continued congressional inaction.
About the Author
Jennifer Smokelin is an attorney in the Pittsburgh office of Reed Smith LLP, who counsels in a broad range of environmental issues, including civil enforcement and litigation matters, as well as regulatory and transactional issues. For the past several years, Smokelin has focused her practice on emerging climate change issues, on which she has lectured and counseled on extensively.
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Lukas Podolski will miss Arsenal's Barclays Premier League clash with West Brom on Saturday because of a short-term hamstring problem.
Theo Walcott, Bacary Sagna and Laurent Koscielny have also been lost to injury - calf, foot and thigh respectively - as the Gunners attempt to bounce back from successive defeats to Swansea and Olympiacos.
"From Tuesday night in Greece there are no new injuries so we have a selection from the combined squad of Tuesday and Saturday," manager Arsene Wenger told the club's official site. "Podolski's injury is a hamstring. It should be short-term. Andre Santos will not be ready for Saturday but he is not far away with an abdominal injury."
Arsenal's busy treatment room is a major setback as Wenger plots an end to the club's worst start to a Premier League season which has left them 10th in the table, five points off fourth place.
Wenger's position is under renewed scrutiny and the Frenchman is facing the prospect of losing another of his senior players in Sagna, who is reportedly unhappy with the terms of the 12-month contract extension he has been offered.
The 29-year-old France right-back believes it is time for the Gunners to start delivering.
"We just need to be wiser. We have had the opportunity to win games, and for some reason we don't," Sagna told Arsenal Player. "We need to work on it. We need to stay focused on the pitch and we need to work harder during training sessions. If we do that everything will be fine. I don't worry about it.
"Everyone is good in the Premier League. Everyone can beat everyone. The top teams are the most consistent ones. They just go game by game and want to take points. We have to step up and show the opposition who is on top. We've made some mistakes in the past and now we want to impose ourselves on our season."
Sagna insisted he is content with life at Arsenal after seeing his career stall following two broken legs in the last year.
"I'm very happy. I'm very happy to be back to football and to play for Arsenal and I'm looking forward to playing more games this season because I've been injured lately," he said.


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Do you wear gloves when working with power tools?
Generally, I do, but not often these days, and recent blisters and scrapes can attest to that. I do like wearing gloves with high-vibration tools, such as oscillating multi-tools and hammer drills.
I should wear gloves more often, especially when handling materials. That would help with splinters, including a particularly large and nasty one a few weeks back, and small cuts.
But NEVER with stationary power tools that have moving or spinning parts.
Common convention seems to be that gloves are OK to be worn with handheld power tools, but NOT OK to be worn with stationary equipment.
Occasionally, a user manual or professional advice will instruct you otherwise, and should be followed.
With handheld power tools, you control the movements of the tool, often with two hands. With stationary equipment, you often control the movements of the work, tool, or positioning devices, and are exposed to fast-spinning parts.
The danger of wearing gloves with stationary equipment is that they can snag and wrap around a spinning bit, blade, or work. Should that happen, your hand – or worse – will be pulled into the danger zone, leading to bodily harm or even death.
A few years ago, a Yale science major died after her hair was caught in a large metal lathe. Loose long hair, neck ties, and loose-fitting shirts or sleeves are a big no-no for exactly that reason.
It's easy to say "that wouldn't happen to me," until someday it does.
Think of all the table saw accidents. Nobody thinks or believes they'll suffer an avoidable or accidental injury, until they do.
So with equipment such as table saws, drill presses, lathes, bandsaws, and other such tools, gloves should not be worn, unless a professional authority instructs you otherwise.
In some cases nitrile gloves might be acceptable, because they're tight-fitting when properly sized, but they can't be relied on to break if caught.
I've made "I don't really need to wear that for this quick task" decisions in the past few months, and a deep cut by my achilles (I wore shoes for basement flood cleanup instead of boots), blister on my left hand (no gloves when using the hedge trimmer and rake for 4 hours), and various small cuts and scrapes convinced me not to take any unnecessary chances.
I plan to wear gloves more often for material handling and assembly work, while taking them off when working with or near fast-spinning machinery.
All this is my opinion – keep in mind that I'm not a safety authority, and that you should follow the advice of user manuals, OSHA, or other such safety authorities.
OSHA PPE Booklet (PDF) – this literature offers guidance on glove selection and use, as well as other personal protective equipment.
OSHA Amputation Avoidance Booklet (PDF) – this literature offers guidance on the different types of equipment you should not wear gloves around.
The common advice seems to be that gloves, loose-fitting clothes, jewelry, and unsecured long hair can increase the risk of accidental injury.
So, if your hands will potentially be exposed to fast-moving parts of any kind, take precautions as indicated in the equipment user manual, or other professional advisory authority.
A lot of this might come across as obvious, but it's only obvious once you think about it, or read guidance in a user manual or similar. I regularly see forum questions asking whether gloves can be used around power tools or not.
My self-guidance is this: if I wear gloves, is there any way for them to entangle my hands in the equipment? If the answer is yes, I don't wear gloves. If for whatever reason I do need to wear gloves, I build or employ guarding to block access.
I don't wear gloves with handheld power tools as much as I used to – and should – and am working on that.
So – do you wear work gloves with power tools and equipment?


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Kent: Commissioner Sorry For Documentary
Embattled police and crime commissioner Ann Barnes apologised today for appearing in a controversial fly-on-the-wall TV documentary.
But she defiantly insisted she would carry on in the #85,000-a-year job despite accusations from officers in Kent that the Channel 4 programme made their force a "laughing stock''.
Pressure on Mrs Barnes intensified yesterday after a youth crime tsar she appointed was temporarily suspended over allegations of a relationship with a married former councillor.
She apologised to rank-and-file officers about the documentary at a meeting of Kent and Medway police and crime panel today, saying she was "deeply sorry'' and admitting that "with hindsight'' it was the wrong decision to feature in it.
But she added: "I will continue to do my work as commissioner.''
Mrs Barnes was urged to ''consider her position'' after Kerry Boyd, the youth crime commissioner she appointed just three months ago, was temporarily suspended following allegations she had a close friendship with married former councillor Robert Burgess.
The 20-year-old former London 2012 torchbearer was given the role in March after her predecessor Paris Brown, then 17, resigned over offensive comments she made on Twitter.
In Meet The Commissioner, which aired last week, Mrs Barnes, who travels around in a van she dubs ''Ann Force 1'', struggled to explain what her role involved and was filmed having difficulty explaining an approach to policing priorities called ''the onion''.
She also failed to write her title correctly on a whiteboard, was filmed painting her ''flaky'' nails and compared the force to a tin of paint that she wanted to ''prise'' open.
In a statement at the opening of the meeting, Mrs Barnes said: ``Before I say anything else I would like to offer an apology to the hard-working men and women of Kent Police.
"I know some of them are upset about the documentary. It was never my intention to do that.
"The only reason I agreed to do the documentary was to help people better understand the role of police and crime commissioner. It is very complex and there are lots of challenges.
"Unfortunately I don't think the programme did that and I'm deeply sorry.''
She stressed she had made the "final decision'' about whether to appear in the programme and did so "with the best of intentions''.
Mrs Barnes said: "With the benefit of hindsight it wasn't the right decision and I'm truly sorry.
"Personal comments I have to take on the chin but it's the reputation comments [about the force] that concern me most. It was never, ever my intention to upset the work of the force.''
She said the first time she and her staff saw the programme was the day before the production period ended and though they raised concerns "it was too late to change''.
During the meeting she came under attack from some members of the panel for presiding over "train crashes'' and repeated misjudgements during her tenure.
She combined contrition with defiance under the tough questioning. Asked if she had considered her position, she said: "I've looked long and hard at the work that I do here in the county.
"I am a fit person to be police and crime commissioner. I work incredibly hard - you know I do. I do know my job. I will continue to do my job as commissioner but I will review my approach to engagements.''
Regarding the allegations surrounding Miss Boyd, she said: "I'm quite sure that the day before the panel meeting...that the chairman has explained to you why it is not possible for anybody to make any comments about that.''
The session, which lasted nearly two hours, was at times bruising for Mrs Barnes, who insisted she was ``not a lame duck'' and had "intellectual rigour''.
Panel chairman Mike Hill opened the meeting by saying the documentary attracted some ``highly critical'' comment and described it as "a PR disaster''.
Giving his conclusions, he said it was "clearly a mistake'' to make the programme and also called on the commissioner to "change her style''.
He said: Some of the behaviours that we saw on the programme cannot perpetuate.''
He said the show caused "damage'' to Mrs Barnes personally and to the office of police commissioner both in Kent and nationally.
Some members of the panel also issued scathing assessments of Mrs Barnes's performance.
Councillor Malcolm Dearden said: "We've had three train crashes coming through. We've had the appointment of the first youth commissioner, we've got this programme and we've got something coming down the road.''
He said of the controversy surrounding the documentary: "It's just a perception that destroys in part the integrity of the office.''
Other members likened the documentary to a "comedy sketch'' and said it showed "gaffe after gaffe after gaffe'' over four months of filming.
But others defended Mrs Barnes, criticising the editing of the programme and saying she had been a victim of attempts to "slur, harrass and bully'' her.


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Ryan Dungey Wins Again!
With Impressive Victory at Final Moto-X 338 National
After over three decades of hosting the world's fastest riders, New England's legendary Moto-X 338 facility hosted its final round of Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, on Saturday. A massive crowd was on hand as the 2013 season reached the halfway point with the sixth round of the championship at the 35th Annual ChaplinKawasaki.com Moto-X 338 National.
After a pair of grueling 450 Class motos on one of the world's most demanding circuits, Red Bull KTM's Ryan Dungey secured his second straight overall victory following 1-2 moto results, gaining valuable ground in the championship standings. In the 250 Class, GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac put forth one of his best outings of the season across each moto to also carry 1-2 moto finishes to his second overall win of the season.
Thousands of fans lined the pits for the final Moto-X 338 National (Photo: Simon Cudby)
As the field of 40 riders converged on the first corner in the opening 450 Class moto, it was Yoshimura Suzuki's James Stewart who claimed the Motorcycle Superstore Holeshot Award and quickly established a comfortable margin out front. Behind him, both Dungey and Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto, the championship leader, were causalities in an incident in the first corner. Dungey emerged mid pack and climbed to 10th by the end of the opening lap, while Villopoto had to overcome an additional incident on Lap 1 to eventually cross the line in 30th.
Stewart continued to extend his advantage over BTO Sports KTM's Andrew Short in second, but suffered a frightening crash on Lap 9 that would ultimately take him out of action for the remainder of the moto. Short assumed the lead, but Dungey was on a charge through the field and made the winning pass on Short on Lap 15, just before the two-lap board. Dungey fended off a late charge from Short to take the opening win, with Team Honda Muscle Milk's Justin Barcia in third. Villopoto battled his way back from adversity as well, passing 26 riders en route to salvaging at fourth-place result.
Ryan Dungey has posted back-to-back wins in the 450 Class (Photo: Matt Rice)
Both Dungey and Villopoto avoided misfortune out of the gate in the final moto to position themselves in first and second, respectively, with Dungey securing the Motorcycle Superstore Holeshot Award. It wasn't long before Villopoto positioned himself in front of Dungey for the lead, with the pair pulling Barcia into a three-rider breakaway.
Villopoto maintained a gap of just over a second on Dungey throughout the first half of the moto, but eventually began to extend his lead as the pair encountered lapped riders. Dungey's charges to close the gap on Villopoto helped him gain a comfortable margin on Barcia in third and secured a runner-up finish in the moto that guaranteed the overall win. Villopoto's 4-1 performance landed him second overall, while Barcia rounded out the podium in third (3-3).
"It's pretty cool to be the final winner here at Southwick," said Dungey. "I grew up watching this place on TV and now I'm racing here. To be able to share this with the fans is awesome. The day was awesome. We made some progress and [took] some little steps forward [in the championship]. We could have done a few things better, but Ryan was riding awesome in that second moto. We have to take things from where they're at and I'm pumped to get the win."
Ryan Villopoto made the most of some adversity to secure a runner-up finish (Photo: Matt Rice)
Villopoto's nine moto wins are the most in the series, and he also holds the distinction of being the only rider to win a moto at every race. However, with his third overall win of the season Dungey has now equaled the overall win total of Villopoto at the season's halfway point.
"The first moto was tough," said Villopoto. "I had to waste a lot of energy to catch back up, but we had a great start in the second moto. I was able to ride really good [early on] and get a gap."
Dungey gained four points on Villopoto in the 450 Class standings, with 12 points separating the pair of former champions.
Competing on a one-race deal with ADR Motorsports, Brett Metcalfe (5-6) finished 4th overall in his return to the States (Photo: Matt Rice)
The action in the 250 Class kicked off with an impressive Motorcycle Superstore Holeshot from GEICO Honda's Wil Hahn, who extended his holeshot streak to three since returning to competition from injury one week ago. New England native Jimmy Decotis challenged Hahn for the lead early in the moto, while his teammate Tomac made quick work of a top-five start. Championship leader Ken Roczen and teammate Marvin Musquin both experienced trouble in the first corner on their Red Bull KTM machines, completing the opening lap in 11th and 24th, respectively.
Tomac assumed the lead before the completion of the first lap and never looked back. He opened up a multiple second margin over the field and consistently pulled away throughout. The battle for second eventually turned into a showdown between reigning 250 Class Champion Blake Baggett, aboard his Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki bike, and Roczen. The points leader appeared to have an edge in speed on the series' most recent winner, but a late crash put distance between the duo and allowed Baggett to claim second, with Roczen in third.
Ken Roczen fought hard for a second-place effort in the 250 Class (Photo: George Crosland)
Knowing he needed a strong second moto, Roczen narrowly secured the Motorcycle Superstore Holeshot over his teammate Musquin, instantly putting both riders up front early. Both Tomac and Baggett found themselves outside the top 10, forcing each rider battle his way through the field.
Roczen was never challenged for the lead in the second moto and ultimately posted a wire-to-wire performance en route to the win, often maintaining an advantage of over 20 seconds. With Roczen out front, the battle for the overall win was squarely on Tomac's ability to move toward the front of the field, which he did so impressively throughout the moto, ultimately climbing from 11th to second over the span of 17 laps.
Tomac edged out Roczen by two points to secure the overall, while GEICO Honda's Zach Osborne completed the overall podium thanks to 5-3 moto finishes. Baggett just missed out on the overall podium in fourth (2-8), after a small crash pushed him to the back of the top 10 in the second moto.
Tomac inched two points closer to Roczen by the time the day was over (Photo: Matt Rice)
"Once you start winning motos and overalls that confidence just builds and builds," said Tomac. "It was great to get the overall, but a little disappointing at the same time because of that second moto. I got a good start in the first moto and thought I had my technique figured out, but I got a little squirrely there [in Moto 2] and got shuffled to the back, so I had to fight. It's really cool to be the last 250 Class winner here at Southwick. This track has always been one I've looked up to and wanted to race at as a little kid."
Roczen maintains control of the 250 Class standings heading into the second half of the season, with Tomac just seven points behind.
"It was really important to get a good start in the second moto and it feels so good to actually do that and have a clear track where I can charge from the beginning," said Roczen. "It definitely did well for me and gave me confidence. I still had some left in me in those last few laps. I'm just super happy."
Final 450 Class Podium at Southwick (L to R): Ryan Villopoto, Ryan Dungey, Justin Barcia (Photo: Matt Rice)
The third and final round of the Women's Motocross Triple Crown also took place at Moto-X 338. Team Honda Muscle Milk's Sayaka Kaneshiro carried a 14-point lead into the final race over N-Fab/TiLUBE Yamaha's Jessica Patterson. At the end of two motos, Patterson put herself in position to win the title by posting a 1-1 sweep. Following 7-3 results by Kaneshiro, which included a fall while running second in moto one, Patterson overcame the deficit to win the Triple Crown by a slim two-point margin. Rock River Yamaha's Mackenzie Tricker (2-2) and Munn Racing KTM's Sara Pettersson (4-4) joined Patterson on the overall podium in second and third, respectively.
Round 7 of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship celebrates Independence Day with its annual visit to Buchanan, Mich., and the Red Bull RedBud National on Saturday, July 6th. Broadcast coverage begins with live first motos on FUEL TV at 1 PM ET. Second moto coverage of the 450 Class can be seen live on NBC at 3 PM ET, while final moto coverage of the 250 Class concludes the afternoon on NBC Sports Network at 4 PM ET. All first motos and the second 450 Class moto will also be streamed on AlliSports.com.
Final 250 Class Podium at Southwick (L to R): Ken Roczen, Eli Tomac, Zach Osborne (Photo: Matt Rice)
Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship
ChaplinKawasaki.com Moto-X 338 National
Moto-X 338 – Southwick, Mass.
June 29, 2013
Round 6 of 12
450 Class (Moto Finish)
1. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM (1-2)
2. Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki (4-1)
3. Justin Barcia, Monroe, N.Y., Honda (3-3)
4. Brett Metcalfe, Mannum, Australia, Kawasaki (5-6)
5. Andrew Short, Colorado Springs, Colo., KTM (2-16)
6. Tyla Rattray, Durban, South Africa, Kawasaki (10-8)
7. Phil Nicoletti, Cohocton, N.Y., Yamaha (6-13)
8. Mike Alessi, Victorville, Calif., Suzuki (8-12)
9. Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Suzuki (11-10)
10. Josh Grant, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha (13-11)
450 Class Championship Standings
1. Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki, 283
2. Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM, 271
3. Justin Barcia, Monroe, N.Y., Honda, 219
4. Trey Canard, Shawnee, Okla., Honda, 169
5. Mike Alessi, Victorville, Calif., Suzuki, 158
6. James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Suzuki, 140
7. Tyla Rattray, Durban, South Africa, Kawasaki, 119
8. Broc Tickle, Holly, Mich., Suzuki, 115
9. Andrew Short, Colorado Springs, Colo., KTM, 110
10. Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki, 109
250 Class (Moto Finish)
1. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda (1-2)
2. Ken Roczen, Apolda, Germany, KTM (3-1)
3. Zach Osborne, Abingdon, Va., Honda (5-3)
4. Blake Baggett, Grand Terrace, Calif., Kawasaki (2-8)
5. Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki (6-4)
6. Cole Seely, Newbury Park, Calif., Honda (8-7)
7. Kyle Cunningham, Aledo, Texas, Yamaha (13-5)
8. Marvin Musquin, La Reole, France, KTM (10-9)
9. Adam Cianciarulo, Port Orange, Fla., Kawasaki (9-12)
10. Alex Martin, Millville, Minn., Yamaha (12-11)
250 Class Championship Standings
1. Ken Roczen, Apolda, Germany, KTM, 265
2. Eli Tomac, Cortez, Colo., Honda, 258
3. Blake Baggett, Grand Terrace, Calif., Kawasaki, 223
4. Marvin Musquin, La Reole, France, KTM, 222
5. Zach Osborne, Abingdon, Va., Honda, 185
6. Jason Anderson, Edgewood, N.M., Suzuki, 161
7. Kyle Cunningham, Aledo, Texas, Yamaha, 131
8. Jeremy Martin, Millville, Minn., Yamaha, 124
9. Justin Bogle, Cushing, Okla., Honda, 122
10. Cooper Webb, Morehead City, N.C., Yamaha, 113
WMX Class (Moto Finish)
1. Jessica Patterson, Tallahassee, Fla., Yamaha (1-1)
2. Mackenzie Tricker, Cairo, Ga., Yamaha (2-2)
3. Sara Pettersson, Kumla, Sweden, KTM (4-4)
4. Sayaka Kaneshiro, Osaka, Japan, Honda (7-3)
5. Lindsey Palmer, Conifer, Calif., Kawasaki (8-5)
6. Taylor Higgins, Mesquite, Texas, Honda (6-8)
7. Marissa Markelon, Ansonia, Conn., KTM (5-12)
8. Sade Allender, Sanford, Maine, Honda (12-7)
9. Brianna DeGray, Springfield, Mass., Honda (10-9)
10. Amanda Brown, Baltimore, Md., Honda (14-6)
WMX Class Championship Standings
1. Jessica Patterson, Tallahassee, Fla., 122
2. Sayaka Kaneshiro, Osaka, Japan, Honda, 120
3. Taylor Higgins, Mesquite, Texas, Honda, 100
4. Mackenzie Tricker, Cairo, Ga., Yamaha, 99
5. Sara Petterson, Kumla, Sweden, KTM, 94
6. Jacqueline Strong, Sedona, Ariz., KTM, 81
7. Lindsey Palmer, Conifer, Calif., Kawasaki, 71
8. Amanda Brown, Baltimore, Md., Honda, 66
9. Sade Allender, Sanford, Maine, Honda, 64
10. Marissa Markelon, Ansonia, Conn., KTM, 55


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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Part of the luxury of doing what I do is that I can down to the basement and pull out a giant bound volume of Life magazine from a long wall's worth of Life magazines and browse/graze away--a much easier thing to do with the volume in hand than it is to do online at the Life site. (Let me tell you that there is simply no comparison, and that you retain far more leafing through the volumes than scrolling down the monitor--try it out at the library next time.) For this particular volume--part of 1942--there was a growing realization that there was an awful lot of the color red being used in the advertisements, as though it had just been "discovered". And there was a lot of it being used to sell candy, cigarettes and, of course, meat.
This ad for Camel cigs is one with a minimal amount of red, though the use of it seems judicious and expansive to the major points of the message. Odd that the idea of "taste" appears almost as a secondary item of attention, and that the thrust of the copy is that lots of doctors happen to smoke Camel, without mentioning why. Well, the ad implies smoothness of smoke to the throat and the "T" section, for taste and easy impact on the throat, but the overwhelming message to me seems to be the smoking doctors giving an Rx to the cigarette.
On the other end of the attack to the human body was the notion that candy=food, an interesting way of moving a heart-busting luxury product, all wrapped in red outlining a white heart, evoking Valentine's Day and love, though this was love for candy itself, as the ad appeared in June.
The Meat Team--not a particular type pf meat; just meat, a red advertisement putting the "eat" in "meat". Red was also used for SPAM, which is a very democratic type of meat byproduct.
Another boost to candy as a food.
I'm probably all wrong on this, but that was the sense-impression I got from leafing through six inches of Life magazine for 1942.


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The biological causes of autism are still not understood. A diagnosis of autism is only possible after ages three or four; and the tests are subjective, based on behavioral symptoms. Now, in research that appeared in Neuron, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, San Diego have found, for the first time, a method that can accurately identify a biological sign of autism in very young toddlers. By scanning the brain activity of sleeping children, the scientists discovered that the autistic brains exhibited significantly weaker synchronization between brain areas tied to language and communication, compared to that of non-autistic children.
"Identifying biological signs of autism has been a major goal for many scientists around the world, both because they may allow early diagnosis, and because they can provide researchers with important clues about the causes and development of the disorder," says postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ilan Dinstein, a member of the group of Prof. Rafael Malach, who headed this study in the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department. While many scientists believe that faulty lines of communication between different parts of the brain are involved in the spectrum of autism disorders, there was no way to observe this in very young children, who are unable to lie still inside an fMRI scanner while they are awake.
But work by Malach's group and other research groups pointed to a solution. Their studies had shown that even during sleep, the brain does not actually switch off. Rather, the electrical activity of the brain cells switches over to spontaneous fluctuation. These fluctuations are coordinated across the two hemispheres of the brain such that each point on the left is synchronized with its corresponding point in the right hemisphere.
In sleeping autistic toddlers, the fMRI scans showed lowered levels of synchronization between the left and right brain areas known to be involved in language and communication. This pattern was not seen either in children with normal development or in those with delayed language development who were not autistic. In fact, the researchers found that this synchronization was strongly tied to the autistic child's ability to communicate: The weaker the synchronization, the more severe were the symptoms of autism. On the basis of the scans, the scientists were able to identify 70% of the autistic children between the ages of one and three.
Dinstein: "This biological measurement could help diagnose autism at a very early stage. The goal for the near future is to find additional markers that can improve the accuracy and the reliability of the diagnosis."


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by David Crane
Accuracy International (AI) appears to have a hit on there hands with the AW50 .50 BMG bolt-action anti-materiel (anti-material)/sniper rifle.
The AI AW50 anti-materiel rifle, in layman's terms, is basically 33-35 lbs (depending on reports) of "you don't want any." This is one very serious rifle designed for hard military use. The AI AW50 is therefore…
modular and highly robust. From reports DefRev has heard, barrels can be swapped out fairly quickly and easily.
For those who need a slightly lighter package, there is another version of the AW50 called the AW50FT. The AW50FT weighs under 28 lbs, and accomplishes its weight reduction by replacing certain steel parts with titanium ones. Both versions feature a folding stock for added compactness during transport. The AW50 feeds from a 5 round detachable box mag.
By the way, if you live in te PSRK (People's Socialist Republik of Kalifornia), you are now SOL, since your state has just banned their sale.
Click here to visit the AI AW50 page at Wolverine Supplies (Canadian Dealer).
Click on this link to visit a good page on the various development phases of the AI AW50.
Here's a very interesting article about the very real political threats against .50 caliber rifles and shooting.


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Was Moshe Rabbeinu obligated in mitzvos during the two periods of 40 days that he spent on Mount Sinai? Did he keep mitzvos (whether obligated to or not) during that time?
I ask because the Torah says (Devarim 9:9):
"I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water;"
And the Gemara says (Bava Metzia 86b):
R. Tanhum b. Hanilai said: One should never break away from [the] custom [of the place he is in]. For behold, Moses ascended on High and ate no bread, whereas the Ministering Angels descended below and ate bread.
This got me thinking: angels are also not (obligated in|capable of) mitzvos. So perhaps Moshe was not obligated to, and didn't, keep mitzvos then, either. Also, there are many mitzvos/halachos involved with eating, e.g. Kiddush, me'ah brachos, seudas Yom Tov (he was up there on Rosh Hashana, so apple in honey too, right? =)). If Moshe didn't eat, does that mean he wasn't fulfilling those mitzvos?
As has been pointed out in the comments and answers, much of the Torah and many of the mitzvos had not yet been given at the time Moshe was on the mountain.
So, to clarify my question: I'm not discussing which mitzvos Moshe was obligated in at that period of time (while not on the mountain).
I wish to know if Moshe kept those mitzvos he was obligated in, as well as if he kept mitzvos that he wasn't (yet) obligated in, as did the Patriarchs.
Even more specifically, I'm not looking for "svaros", but rather for sources in Rabbinic literature that mention or discuss this.


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Hi there
In less than 1 hour is the 1st of May. Every first Sunday of May is Mother´s day here where I live.
I made this bookmark-tag for my mum as mother´s day present.
She loves poppies soooooo much and she reads paper books.....yes one of those strange people ;)
My quote reads: "Writen with poppies ink"
I tried coloring facial skin as realistic as possible
What is behind the tag??? this verse that seemed so beautiful to me from Quevedo
Something like this translated:
There are short books; to understand them as they deserve, a very long life is required
Hope you like my tag.
Thanks for stopping by.


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As President Obama announces his plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, military communities around the country welcome the news. Watertown, New York, is near Fort Drum, home of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which has been in constant deployment during the past decade.
The walls of the American Legion Hall in Watertown, New York, are adorned with photographs of local men and women who have served their country during war. Many paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Phil Gary served in the Navy during the Vietnam War. He said he is in favor of President Obama's plan to start withdrawing thousands of troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. Many of those troops are from the Army's 10th Mountain Division, stationed nearby at Fort Drum.
"No matter what time in the world it is or what year in the world it is, there is always going to be a conflict," Gary said. "I believe they are always going to ask for help, along with the United Nations and other countries so, are you asking me if I agree with it? Yes, because I believe in our president and he directed it."
That sense of duty is not uncommon in this part of the country. Watertown is a small industrial city along the Black River, where conservative values run strong, and there is a long history of military service. Statues on the town square speak of honor, country, and wars fought in the past.
That tradition has been shouldered by the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division. Many live in Watertown. They were among the first units to go to Afghanistan. Some soldiers have served three deployments in the past decade. Watertown Mayor Jeffrey Graham says both the Afghan and Iraq wars have been hard on the community.
"I think that most people, not just Watertown because we have a military presence here, but most people in this country are really getting fatigued by these constant wars," he said. "It is perpetual war. And the casualties, the expense, the deployments. I think people would just like to see an end to it."
Michael Oquendo, Adonis Frias Rodriquez, and Lewis Paulino are active duty Fort Drum soldiers, who live in a small community just outside the base. They returned from a one-year deployment to Afghanistan two months ago. They hold different views on the troop pullout, but they say that is not uncommon within the military. Michael Oquendo says the pullout is a bad idea.
"At some point I think we should stay, because we have achieved a lot," he said. "And by us pulling out right now like that, and leaving everything like it is. It is not a good idea because the U.S. is making stuff happen there. Connecting the villages, connecting everything together. Making the country come together."
Lewis Paulino disagrees. He says the United States has too many problems at home.
"We have got so many problems here,." he said. "I think it is more important than take care of problems from another country ... here we have got a lot of stuff to do."
But all three young soldiers say that if called upon, they would deploy again. Because that is what soldiers do, they say, serve with honor.


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How much will Google pay to bring fiber to Provo, Utah? Try $1
Not a bad price for a $39m network build-out
Choosing the small city of Provo, Utah as the next location to receive Google's high-speed fiber internet service must have been a no-brainer, as the online giant will reportedly pay just $1 to set up shop in the area.
That's in part because, unlike Kansas City and Austin, Texas before it, Google won't actually need to build out its own fiber network in Provo, the Associated Press reports.
Instead, the Chocolate Factory will take over operations of iProvo, an existing municipal fiber network that has provided internet, telephone, and television service to area residents since 2006.
iProvo was originally developed as a public/private partnership, with Provo retaining ownership of the physical fiber and other infrastructure while the internet, phone, and TV services were managed by private companies.
Provo has reportedly sunk $39m into the project so far, but the network has never been profitable. In 2008, the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, estimated that the city's losses on the project had reached $8m and were still climbing.
Under the terms of the deal announced on Friday, Google will take the lossmaking network off Provo's hands for the measly sum of $1 – this, despite the fact that the city must still make bond payments of $3.3m per year for the next 12 years to pay off debts related the original build-out, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Google will also take over management of internet and television service from Provo's current network provider, Veracity Networks. The Google Fiber package doesn't include telephone service, however, and the Chocolate Factory has hinted that it may allow Veracity to keep offering that.
In the return for the sweetheart deal, Google will provide city facilities with free gigabit internet service for seven years. Google has also agreed to connect the network to the remaining two-thirds of homes that are not yet wired up to it, in addition to upgrading some of the network infrastructure.
"Our fiber is still good, but they have to replace the infrastructure around the fiber. That stuff has been around for years," Provo Deputy Mayor Corey Norman told the Associated Press.
The Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce estimates that Google will probably need to invest around $18m to complete these upgrades to the iProvo network – a fraction of the $94m it will have coughed up to build out its Kansas City network by the end of 2013.
There's even an "escape clause" built into the deal. If Google gets cold feet about its Provo service, it has the option of selling the network back to the city, again for just $1. Provo would then be free to find a new suitor, presumably with Google's network upgrades intact.
The search giant says it expects the network to be profitable, however, and it is even rumored to be planning to expand the current service by building out a citywide Wi-Fi network, although this has not been confirmed.
Pricing for the Provo service has not been announced, except that Google has agreed to provide residents with basic, 5Mbps internet service for a fee of $5.35 per month if they pay a one-time connection fee.
That's a pretty good deal for Provo residents, given that they already pay the $5.35 now. The city tacks the fee onto their utility bills each month to help underwrite the network, whether they use the service or not. Actually getting set up to use the iProvo service, on the other hand, has carried a $700 activation fee, will which be reduced to just $30 under Google's plan.
If pricing in Provo ends up being anything like that in Kansas City, subscribers will pay $70 per month for gigabit internet connectivity, and for another $50 per month they will be able to get Google's high-definition TV service, too.
But the deal isn't done yet. The Provo City Council still must conduct a final vote to approve the sale, which will take place at its upcoming regular meeting on Tuesday. Between now and then, Provo residents can weigh in at any of six public hearings scheduled to take place on the matter. ®


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I just unboxed the iPhone 5, and the first thing that jumps out as I play with it -- this thing is fast.
Like, super insanely fast. Like, so fast, I ran across the room to show Joe how fast it is.
I've been on an AT&T iPhone 4, which struggles to handle the web. I switched to Verizon LTE for the iPhone 5 and it's just screamingly fast. Faster than the in-office wifi, fast.
My colleague Kevin Smith has the iPhone 5 on AT&T LTE and it's also super fast.
For what it's worth, I've used Samsung's Android phones on LTE and I don't remember them being this fast.
Seriously. This thing is speedy.
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Personal Reinvention - Lessons From the Kingdoms of Amalur
I became a venture capitalist over nine years ago, leaving my entrepreneurial career at the ripe age of 32. At the time, I had been an entrepreneur for ten years across three companies, and felt helping start Flybridge Capital represented an exciting opportunity to team with a few friends to create a new kind of venture capital firm. Equally compelling for me was the challenge of personal reinvention - pushing myself out of my comfort zone to learn a completely new operating model and face a new set of challenges.
I was reflecting on this as I read the fanfare over the last few weeks about former Red Sox All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling releasing his inaugural game, the Kingdoms of Amalur. Talk about personal transformation! Schilling retired from over 20 years in professional baseball to become a start-up entrepreneur, forming his gaming company, 38 Studios, in 2006. I documented his transformation in a Harvard Business School case study called Curt's Next Pitch, along with my friend and colleague Professor Noam Wasserman.
The launch of the Kingdoms of Amalur an amazing accomplishment. Schilling has had to figure out a completely new blueprint for operating in the world of technology start-ups. He joked with me when we were working on the case that much of his language had to be relearned - for example, "burn rate" used to be a good thing, representing how fast your heater sped towards the plate at the batter.
You don't have to be a World Series MVP to appreciate the difficulty in personal transformations. It's something I see entrepreneurs struggling with all the time - sometimes they are trying to transfer their skills from one industry into another, other times they are trying to adjust to the new phases of their business - from inception to adolesence to more mature, scaling issues.
Here are a few general lessons I've observed that are patterns of successful efforts towards personal reinvention:
- Don't be afraid to ask for help - and even risk looking dumb. People who have achieved great success in one field become very proud of those achievements. It is hard to take a step back and recognize that you need help to learn a new blueprint in the new field. And sometimes finding people who you feel safe with - and able to ask the most basic, dumb questions - can be of great help. Schilling sought out gaming executives from the very beginning who could mentor him and teach him the ropes and was never afraid to "start with the basics". I remember struggling through all new concepts and modes of operation during my first year or two as a venture capitalist and leaning on my partners as well as mentors from other firms - and, importantly, swallowing my pride when doing so. Too many folks get stuck dwelling on their past accomplishments rather than pushing forward into new fields. As Ulysses says: "Pride hath no other glass to show itself, but pride." In computer science terms, you would call that a "doom loop"!
- Understand your personal strengths and weaknesses - and how they fit in the new model. Many entrepreneurs do not conduct enough deep self-reflection. They may have the intellectual firepower to analyze the criteria for success in the new field, but lack the emotional IQ to appreciate how their own skills map. What are your top three core strengths that make you special and unique? What are the three things that your spouse or parents would say are your biggest faillings that you need to work on? And how do these relate to the new field? Delver deeply into who you are and how you operate, and then you will be better positioned to undergo the personal reinvention required ot tackle the new field. Jerry Colonna has a nice guest post on the topic of "learning to lead yourself" on Fred Wilson's blog.
- Mantain the core success attributes - have the right, flexible mindset. No matter what field you are tackling, there are an obvious set of core attributes that help individuals achieve success. In the context of changing fields, the most important arguably is the importance of avoiding rigid thinking. Don't keep applying the same blueprint and remaining stuck on a particular approach to company-buidling. Instead, concentrate your energy on the growth and change required to make the adjustments to the new domain. Stanford researcher Carol Dweck's book, Mindset, is a nice summary of the approach that successful people take when facing new challenges. She observes that those that are able to achieve consistent success across fields have the following attributes:
- A passion for learning
- A passion for stretching themselves
- Avoid dwelling on how great they are, but instead focus on getting better
- Surround yourself with people that will challenge and push you
These are the lessons for personal reinvention and facing new challenges. Over the course of six tough years in launching and building his company, Curt Schilling appears to have figured this out. Will you?


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Charles Precourt
Charles Precourt is an American astronaut who was born on June 29, 1955, in Massachusetts. Before he became an astronaut, Precourt was an Air Force pilot. He has logged over 4300 hours of flight time.
Precourt became an astronaut in 1991. He spent over 696 hours in space aboard three spaceflights.
In 1993, Precourt made his first spaceflight aboard STS-55. Over 90 experiments were conducted on this 10-day mission in life sciences, materials processing, and astronomy observations. Precourt flew aboard STS-71 in 1995. This was the first Space Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Mir Space Station.
Precourt made his third spaceflight aboard STS-84 in 1997. The crew docked with Mir for 8 days.


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by David Crane
Mid-South Tactical Network (MSTN) has been churning and burning over there, turning out some really sweet AR-15/M16-based custom tactical rifles and carbines (short to medium-range interdiction/sniper rifles and carbines, to be more specific) in 6.8x43mm SPC (6.8mm SPC/6.8 Rem SPC), as well as 5.56x45mm subcarbines utilizing 10.5" LMT (Lewis Machine & Tool) uppers. All the guns are custom-built by MSTN-built by MSTN, and are perfectly geared for use by military Special Operations (SPECOPS) personnel, LE SWAT operators, and private military contractors/operators.
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Click here to see an MSTN-built 5.56x45mm subcarbine with 10.5"-barreled LMT (Lewis Machine & Tool) stripped upper, Larue Tactical Mil-Std-1913 rail system/forend rail tube, and Crane NSWC stock. You'll have to scroll a little bit, as the pics are inside an AR-15.com thread.
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Another Missouri pic, this was my view from the window seat on the flight out. My first flight ever. It was pretty cool watching the sun set from above the clouds.
Tomorrow night I'm volunteering at Dream Night at the Stone Zoo. It is a free, after-hours event for chronically ill and disabled children and their families and caregivers. I will be doing the photography. I can't wait for this event. I've often wanted to volunteer with the Make-a-Wish foundation and this event is a similar event. I am a member of Boston Cares which is an organization that offers tons of volunteer events on a calendar system that I can pick and choose and sign up for whenever I am available. I haven't been doing it very long and this will be only my 3rd event so far with them but I love it. It's so flexible and they offer so many wonderful events. If you're looking for a great way to get in some volunteer time that works with your schedule, definitely check out Boston Cares.
So far I have volunteered at the Hoop-a-thon for Huntington's Disease and the Special Olympics. Both events were really fun, I got to meet new people and do some great volunteer work. I'm a big fan of volunteering, if you couldn't tell!! I also donated the design for this year's MSPCA Angel Walk for Animals which I will be walking in on September 7th (let me know if you want to walk too!). I like to go and work at events but I'm also always available to do design or photography work for any organization. I'm also volunteering at this year's Gluten-Free Cooking Spree on September 13th and I am really looking forward to that event.
If you're interested in volunteering at any of these events, or would like more information about Boston Cares or other volunteer opportunities, please feel free to contact me!


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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:03:03 -0400
- To: Mike Bergman <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <email@example.com>, Julian Reschke <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Larry Masinter <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Mark Nottingham <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Pat Hayes <email@example.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <email@example.com>, W3C TAG <email@example.com>
Mike Bergman writes: > I don't know whether they would accept the commission (as I have > suggested before [1]), but I again suggest the TAG appoint Roy > Fielding and Pat Hayes to work jointly to present to the TAG a > resolution to these vexing terminology and semantics issues. I think I speak for the TAG in saying that we welcome constructive proposals from anyone in the community, and that would include Roy and/or Pat, should they decide to offer any in this area. From a process point of view, the TAG doesn't "appoint" anyone other than TAG members to do work like this, though we do sometimes accept offers from people who want to work with us. I expect that Roy and Pat have seen your suggestion. They both know the TAG and its ways very well, and if they wanted to undertake work on this, they'll know how to coordinate appropriately. > Further, if the TAG were to agree in advance to accept a > consensus recommendation from them, I think that goodwill and > intelligence will prevail. I, for one, would agree to the > recommendation. Honestly, I don't think this suggestion properly reflects the role of the TAG. The TAG adds value when it offers a considered review of the pros and cons of particular drafts or other proposals. We can't do that by agreeing in advance, even to suggestions from people as well respected as Roy and Pat. Noah W3C TAG co-chair -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- Mike Bergman <firstname.lastname@example.com> 08/24/2009 09:01 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com cc: Tim Berners-Lee <email@example.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <email@example.com>, Julian Reschke <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Larry Masinter <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Mark Nottingham <email@example.com>, Pat Hayes <email@example.com>, W3C TAG <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: Historical - Re: Proposed IETF/W3C task force: "Resource meaning" Review of new HTTPbis text for 303 See Other Hi All, I don't know whether they would accept the commission (as I have suggested before [1]), but I again suggest the TAG appoint Roy Fielding and Pat Hayes to work jointly to present to the TAG a resolution to these vexing terminology and semantics issues. Further, if the TAG were to agree in advance to accept a consensus recommendation from them, I think that goodwill and intelligence will prevail. I, for one, would agree to the recommendation. Thanks, Mike [1] http://www.mkbergman.com/426/the-shaky-semantics-of-the-semantic-web/ email@example.com wrote: > Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > >> I would like to see what the documents all look like if edited to >> use the words Document and Thing, and eliminate Resource. That's my >> best bet as to two english words which mean as close as we can get >> to what we want. > > Yes on "thing"; as you've heard me say from time to time, I continue to > have reservations about the word "document". No doubt "document" seems > less intimidating than IR, and is often suggestive of what we mean. Still, > I think it's actually too narrow, or at least troublingly ambiguous. > > Maybe I've hung out with the XML crowd to long, but one of the things that > I tend to think of as characteristic of "documents", as opposed to "data", > is that they tend to have ordered content. The order of the paragraphs in > this email document is significant. > > Now, let's say that I have a resource (thing) that consists of an > unordered set of stock quotes. Each quote is a {company name, price} > pair, but there is no inherent or prefered order for the quotes. As a > practical matter, any particular representation sent through HTTP will > likely have the quotes in one order or another, but that order is an > artifact of the representation technology, just like the angle brackets, > whitespace or other delimiters for the quotes. I representation with the > order changed would be equally appropriate. > > Question: is it OK to return a 200 for this bag of quotes? I hope so. Do > we call an unordered bag of quotes a document? Well, we can, but I think > it's a stretch. > > I played some role in suggesting the term "Information Resource" to the > TAG in 2004. I acknowledge and regret that few seem to be pleased with > it, but let me at least remind those who don't know how it came about. I > wanted to find a term that more clearly covered cases like the one above > (and relational tables, trees, graphs, and other data-like abstractions). > It occurred to me that Claude Shannon, in his theory of Information, > seemed to deal with exactly the sorts of abstractions for which we wanted > to allow 200; I.e., those that could be represented by a sequence of > bits, of agreed encoding. Can you apply Shannon's theory (which is > really about error rates and reliablity) to attempts to transmit the text > of the Gettysburg address? Yes, presuming sender and receiver can agree > on an encoding. Can you apply Shannon's theory to my bag of stock quotes > or to the information filling the (unordered!) rows and columns of a > relational table? Yes. Can you apply it to attempts to somehow transmit > me, the three dimensional living TAG member with the unruly hair? No. So, > it's just the distinction we want. > > If everyone decides that on balance "document" is the lesser of the evils, > I suppose I could go along with it, but I don't think it's quite right. If > we use it, we should at least try to explain what's really covered and > what's not. I still think that IR, in the sense intended, is closer to > what we really mean. (If I have to return a 303 for a bag of stock > quotes, I'm going to be annoyed.) > > Noah > > -------------------------------------- > Noah Mendelsohn > IBM Corporation > One Rogers Street > Cambridge, MA 02142 > 1-617-693-4036 > -------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > Tim Berners-Lee <email@example.com> > Sent by: firstname.lastname@example.com > 08/01/2009 10:14 PM > > To: Pat Hayes <email@example.com> > cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <email@example.com>, Larry Masinter > <email@example.com>, Julian Reschke <email@example.com>, Mark > Nottingham <firstname.lastname@example.com>, W3C TAG <firstname.lastname@example.com>, (bcc: Noah > Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM) > Subject: Historical - Re: Proposed IETF/W3C task force: > "Resource meaning" Review of new HTTPbis text for 303 See Other > > > > On 2009-07 -20, at 16:27, Pat Hayes wrote: > [...] > > . But this thread started because HTTPbis explicitly disagrees with RFC > 3986 on what a resource is. Surely these various documents should at least > agree on their uses of the basic technical terminology. > > I agree. > > Historically, URIs were used to point to thinks like web pages and files > and movies, on the web, useful documents, or "online resources" in the > sense of useful things out there. FTP. Gopher and HTTP sites served up > various types of online resources. People got used to http://example.com/ > being a web page and http://example.com/#contact being an anchor within > it. > > The Online Information community, into whose domain the web stuff was put > for standardization at the IETF, referred to these things like web pages > as resources, and changed the original "D" for "Document" in "UDI" to > "R". > Some felt that resource was more appropriate term, maybe because > "document" wasn't wide enough to include things like movies. > > Now the URI spec actually allowed URIs for completely different things, > such as telephone end points, and wisely the URI spec does not make any > arbitrary constraint on what a resource should be, especially a resource > denoted by a URI in a new scheme to be invented. > > Meanwhile, the HTTP spec was polished and elaborated basically as a > document delivery system, plus other methods for updating documents, plus > POST. (POST started historically as a way of introducing a new web page y > posting it to a list, just as in NNTP. It then almost immediately got > used as a catch-all extension method. I will ignore it in this overview). > > There was no real definition of what a resource or document was -- maybe > because it seemed obvious. The HTTP spec did not even specify whether the > URI denoted a person or a document about them, it just explained that the > thing returned representation of the resource. > > Roy's REST work then came along to formalize HTTP as REST and declared > that a resource was a time-varying mapping between URI and representation. > That was good enough for HTTP. It didn't have enough for the AWWW, when it > came along, to be able to describe how the web worked. > > In fact, the AWWW document, to explain how to use the web properly, had to > add in a bunch of stuff about the social expectations -- things like, yes, > the mapping from URI to representation is a function of time, but not just > any old one -- a random function is not typically very useful. There are > expectations about it can change with time. Persistence, consistency, > with various common patterns which allow the web to be a useful medium. > The AWWW decided to use the term "Information Resource" for a thing like a > web page which contains information, and "Resource" for any old thing at > all. > > So HTTP and the REST work of was done very much in this space of document > delivery, editing and update. There was no philosophical need to talk > about what he URI denoted (the person, the web page about the person) > until RDF came along, when there was an immediate need. > > When RDF was first developed, it was motivated by the need for data about > resources very much in the online information sense: data about documents, > or 'metadata'. In fact it was designed to be able to describe anything, > but many early users of RDF referred to it as metadata technology. RDF > used the word "resource" rather awkwardly in fact as it turned out. In > the beginning, many of the things being described were documents, and so > the online information meaning of resource made sense. But in fact in RDF > the resource was allowed to be anything at all. A class, rdf:Resource even > used the term as the universal class of all things. A little later, the > Web Ontology Language decided to use Thing for that. > > RDF came along in what I think was a neat way. It used completely > existing web protocol extension devices to introduce a new system which > was fundamentally different from the old HTTP+HTML one. The HTML web was > a hypertext model, which pages and anchors. The RDF model was a knowledge > representation one of arbitrary things. It did this by using the fact > that a new language can define whatever it likes as what a local > identifier denotes. A graphic language might use local identifier to > denote lines and points. HTML used local identifiers to identify hypertext > anchors. RDF used them to identify arbitrary concepts, people, whatever. > > The web architecture gave all these languages a common way of building a > global identifier for the thing denoted by a local identifier in a given > document. The semantics of the hash sign are defined web-wide to mean > that "a#b" can be used to denote whatever is denoted by "b" in the > document denoted by "a". > > Worked a treat. At the beginning of the century, people played around and > gave all kinds of things URIs like "http://example.com/foo.rdf#color". > Some of us did lots of work and made all kinds of systems which exchanged > and integrated data in this way. > > Two snags occurred, as the years passed. One was that a bunch of RDF > users got the fact that it was good to use HTTP URIs, but didn't get the > fact that you should put the foo.rdf online so that people can look up > what #color means in it. And as they didn't do that, they didn't actually > bother with the "#" at all. The second fly in the ointment was that some > people wanting to use RDF for large systems found that they didn't want to > use the "#". This was sometimes because the number of things defined in > the same file was too low (like 1) or too large (like a million) and it > was difficult to divide up the information into middle-sized chunks. Or > they just didn't like the "#" because it looks weird. But for one reason > or another people demanded the right to be able to use > http://example.net/people/Pat to denote Pat rather than a web page about > Pat. > > This potentially led to huge failures in the whole RDF world, with systems > already built which just used "http://example.net/people/Pat" to > identify the document whether you like it or not. > I among others pushed back against using non-hash URIs for arbitrary > things his but eventually gave in. > > So in response to this, the HTTP protocol was, in fact, changed. > > The spec wasn't changed. The spec editors were not brought on board to > the new model. The spec was interpreted. The TAG negotiated in a way a > truce between the existing HTTP spec, RDF systems, and people who wanted > to use HTTP URIs without "#" to identify people. That truce was > HTTPRange-14, which said that yoiu don't a priory know that a hashless > HTTP URI denoted a document, but if the server responded with a 200 then > you did, and you had a representation of the document. If you did a get > on one of these new URIs which identified things were not documents > (people, RDF properties, classes, etc) them the server must not return > 200, it can return 303 pointing to a document which explains more. > > So the HTTP protocol was, effectively, changed. The HTTP protocol as > extended now allows HTTP to be used not only for Documents but for > arbitrary Things. It extends the set of things which you can ask a web > server about from documents to anything. It isn't a very bad design, nor > very beautiful. Other designs would have worked, but that one was the > only one which didn't have major problems for some community. It could be > extended, but basically it works. It would be very expensive to reverse it > in terms of systems which have been deployed. > > It is also very expensive to go on debating it as though it is an open > issue. It is reasonable to try to make the documents more consistent. > > Anyway, that is a simplified version of the history of all this as I saw > it. > > I would like to see what the documents all look like if edited to use the > words Document and Thing, and eliminate Resource. That's my best bet as to > two english words which mean as close as we can get to what we want. Note > however that the web is a new system, a design in which new concepts are > created, so we can't expect english words to exist to capture exactly the > concepts. So we take those nearby and abuse them as little as we can as > far as we can tell at the time, and then write them in initial caps to > recognize that that is what we have done. > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > -- __________________________________________ Michael K. 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text: Whoops. Looks like Motorola and Verizon's corporate security team will be busier than normal tonight, as Engadget has posted a thorough hands on with the highly-anticipated smartphone. We don't want to steal anyone's thunder, but let's just say the screen is even larger than previously thought and that the processor is ever faster. Hit the jump for a couple more pics, then head on over to Engadget to check out what is surely to be Verizon's darling for many months to come.


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About This Quiz
When it comes to speaking French, there are a few different groups. There are those that can't speak it at all, those who can speak a little bit of it, and those who can speak it very well. No matter which of these groups you fall into it's fine, but there is one group of people that top all of them, and that is those that know a lot of French slang. Because seriously, what is cooler than that?
Let's say you're out on the town at a club in Paris. Sure you might be able to flirt with someone but can you do it while using French slang? Or maybe you're hanging out with some friends, and you are ready to go, would you know to yell out C'est Parti? If you made someone dinner and they told you that is was "nickel," would you be happy or would your feeling be totally hurt?
French is a beautiful language, and even more so if you master its slang. Take this quiz, and we'll let you know if you're an expert or not on French slang. There's no time to waste, so vite fait. Or just laisse tomber if you want. We don't care.
This is a French expression used when you've had enough and you simply can't take it anymore. If everything goes wrong for you in a certain day, this would be what you might yell out.
This is what you say when you've been talking to someone about something for a long time and they still don't seem to understand what you're trying to say. Not usually meant literally.
While "chanmé" is often used often to describe a child who is acting up and behaving badly, it also has another meaning. It can be sometimes used to describe something that is cool as well.
This slang word can be used pretty much anytime that you're trying to pick something up or pull something. But it is usually used when someone is trying to pick someone up at a club.
As the old expression goes, "He who hesitates is lost." When you set out to do something "vite fait," it means to do something as quickly as you can and without any sort of hesitation.
While "impeccable" is a word that many of us know the meaning of, most of us don't know it's slang in French. When you hit something right on the money someone around you might exclaim this word.
While this word really does mean "weird," it is usually used to describe people and not objects. Someone that is acting "chelou" is someone you want to stay away from for the most part.
Have you ever wondered why we yell out "ow!" at the top of our lungs when we hurt ourselves? Well, they do that in France as well, except they use a different word that means nothing.
This is a word that can be used numerous ways, but never is a way that is meant to be pleasant. It is used to describe something that is a pain, whether that be a person or a situation.
The French word "fou" means one is crazy and "ouf" is "fou" spelled backwards. So we guess the point of this slang word is if you get called crazy backwards, you must be seriously insane.
All countries have different slang words for the police; some are derogatory, and some are not. This is a word you can use to describe a police officer in France and not make them mad, and that's a good thing.
Some people might deny it, but the fact is pretty much everyone likes to have a little bit of money laying around. The word "fric" is slang for cash, so if you're out on the town in France, you want this.
Every culture has different slang words to let people know that you understand and that you're picking up what someone else is putting down. In France one of those words is "piger".
This slang term doesn't just mean that something isn't all that good, it really means something is awful. If you had a really bad dinner out, you might use this term to describe how bad it was.
If you were to be interrogated by the police and you heard them say the word "dalle," that might be a really good thing. They are probably saying they have no evidence at all against you.
If someone is kicking around your house for a long time and you're ready to go to bed, you can tell him to "file." It might not be polite but at least you'll probably be in bed soon.
The French know fashion. If there is one thing we know about the French it is that they tend to be rather stylish, so if you hear this slang term you know whatever is being talked about is cool.
This might sound like a rude thing to say but it isn't always. Not only can it mean "pay attention," but it also can mean 'look out" or be careful. So if you hear this you should give it heed.
Some of these expressions are only used in specific circumstances. This word can simply mean "finally" but is usually used when someone has been looking for something and finally found it.
This is a French slang term that was made popular by French rapper Booba. It is used by those who are hip and is recognized as meaning "cool" as well as"chill." It's often used on Instagram.
There are a lot of slang terms in France that are greetings but not many as popular as this one. If someone says this to you on the street, they are offering you a friendly greeting of "hello."
"Mytho" is an abbreviation of mythomana, which literally means "a compulsive liar." It is a slang word for those who like to exaggerate the truth to make themselves seem more interesting.
Sure, you might have a romantic view of what France is all about, but every country needs to get things done at times. This slang word is about when it is time for someone to get to work.
No one wants to overstay their welcome even while having a good time, and other times things get boring. This slang term is what you say when it is time to head out and hit the highway.
While in America we think of a nickel as being a small amount of money, in the French language it means something entirely different. If something is absolutely perfect, you would say it was "nickel."
The French are in love with food, so it isn't difficult at all to have an incredible dinner if you're in that country. So if you hear someone say this slang word get ready, because it's time to eat.
Just about everyone knows in America that if you want to celebrate a toast that you say "cheers." This slang term means the same thing in France; it's always a good thing when you hear it.
Some of these are more logical than others to us that speak English. "Bref" basically means that you are making a long story short, in other words you're doing your best to keep things brief.
You're probably used to the terms, "dude" and "bro," maybe you even use them every once in a while, or even all the time. In France, if someone calls you this, they're basically calling you "dude."
As an English speaker, when you think of a "nana," you're probably thinking of an old woman. Not so when it comes to French slang; this word means the female equivalent of "dude."
Most people use this slang term to describe something they would use to get to work in, or maybe just drive around for fun. "Une bagnole" is a French slang term to describe a car.
Is there anything that has more slang terms attached to it than marijuana? No matter what country you're in, there are a ton of slang terms for it. This is one of the more popular French ones.
This is the French slang equivalent of the word "meh." It basically means something that is not exciting, kind of boring or a little bit disappointing. Point being it is not a compliment.
This is one of those words like our "umm" that is used to buy yourself time while trying to think of the right word to say. Why do we say words like this? Well, at least the French do it too.
When it comes to French slang, it isn't just spoken word, there is a ton of Internet slang too. "Bjr" is an Internet abbreviation for "bonjour" because come on, that would take way to long to type.


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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Now that Gearbox's Battleborn is out in the open, it's a bit easier to understand why the studio is teaming up with 2K Australia on this fall's Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. In the first episode of a "making of" series, we get a look at how the two developers are working together, despite being on opposite sides of the world.
Co-development isn't a new phenomenon, but there are certainly challenges when the partners are in Texas and Australia. Still, everything we've heard from both Gearbox and 2K Australia (formerly Irrational Australia) evidences a great working relationship.
You can check out the video to learn more about how Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel came about and how the two studios are working together. You can also read up on our earlier preview that includes a conversation with Gearbox president Randy Pitchford and 2K Australia general manager Tony Lawrence.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel will be out on October 14 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. As for new-gen consoles? We wouldn't rule them out entirely.


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APPLICANTS who wish to apply for the Tonga Youth Parliament 2019 will be closed at 4:30 pm next Monday.
Application forms can be collected from the Legislative Assembly Office (Tonga Parliament Office (Legislative Assembly Office) or it can be downloaded from this Url link, Online Form Download link
Youths between the ages of 14-34 are invited to apply
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The first Youth Parliament held in Tonga was in 2002.